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[Bullethead]

My Fellow Gulf Coast Inmates-

Looks like we'll be playing Hurricane Hot Potato again in the next few days. I won't wish it on you all if you all don't wish it on me :rofl:

 

[joeybigO]

I see you have not had a visitor this year, Although this is my first year near the Gulf coast, I would have to say I left Florida right before Fay took a whack at me.

So in theory, or in paranoia, i'm not quite sure yet, they are following me.
I do believe that one will head towards Texas.

 

[Biscuit]

I'm right here in the Pensacola, FL area ... somehow I've got the feeling it's going to wind up coming this way.

As long as it don't roll in as a Cat 4, though, I'm not too worried about it.

 

[Tex]

Me and my girlfriend are heading to Austin, New Braunsfels, and San Antonio for a 4 day holiday this weekend over Labor Day. We're gonna tube the river in New Braunsfels with some other friends, hit 6th street bars in Austin, and stay on the river walk in San Antonio. Storm or no storm, I'm not going to cancel my plans for this weekend, we've been looking forward to it for a while now.

They usually seem to turn away from us which this one right now looks to be doing, but we'll be watching it close from San Antonio before we come home as it would be making land fall right about the time we would be coming back.

 

[Bullethead]

Well, looks like it's my turn in the barrel :dry:. Schloss Geschosskopf is rigged for heavy weather and smallarms have been issued to repel the expected wave of Mad Maxian brigandage soon to spread out from New Orleans, just as it did with Katrina. That worries me much more than the weather, because I'm a ways inland on some of the highest ground in the state, with generator and supplies to last a while.

 

[n0mad23]

Heavy weather time again. I see they're predicting the best for the levees in New O.

It's cold and gray up my way. No room - no jobs - awful weather - don't bother coming to the PacNorWest for relief.

 

[Deke]

After Katrina...

Better you guys than us.

Good luck none the less, but it looks like a high pressure system moving in is gonna push Gustav west towards the Louisiana/Texas border.

 

[joeybigO]

All I have to say is that there is a path that I really don't like, its appropriately colored in black in the wunderground site.

But that track would land it close to where I live and if its cat 3 or around there it will have cat 1 winds when it hits me.

 

[Tex]

All I have to say is that there is a path that I really don't like, its appropriately colored in black in the wunderground site.

But that track would land it close to where I live and if its cat 3 or around there it will have cat 1 winds when it hits me.

You'll be safe. Hell, I'll be in San Antonio with you if it comes into Houston head on as a Cat 3 to 5. I'll be there already anyway, just wont come home until the storm passes.

 

[Deke]

Tex you should make a new Group mask here called "The Gulf Coast Hurricane Club"

Ha ha.

Anyway, new tracking shows it projecting slightly more west, even more so if that high pressure over Oklahoma keeps up.

Boxcars, Tex.

 

[joeybigO]

You'll be safe. Hell, I'll be in San Antonio with you if it comes into Houston head on as a Cat 3 to 5. I'll be there already anyway, just wont come home until the storm passes.

is your evacuation route the 10?
My brother lives in La Porte and I don't know where exactly that is in relation to you, but his evacuation route is the 10. I wonder if you guys are close to each other?

 

[Tex]

is your evacuation route the 10?
My brother lives in La Porte and I don't know where exactly that is in relation to you, but his evacuation route is the 10. I wonder if you guys are close to each other?

My route would be I-45 North I'm sure, I live across the lake from Johnson Space Center. La Porte is not far, about 15 miles North East from me I guess.

However, as I posted earlier in this thread I am already going to be in Austin, New Braunsfels, then San Antonio for a holiday with my girlfriend over Labor Day weekend. We leave tomorrow night (Friday), so we'll be watching the storm track from up there and if it comes into Houston we wont be able to come home on Tues. as we planned.

 

[Bullethead]

Tex you should make a new Group mask here called "The Gulf Coast Hurricane Club" Ha ha.

I dunno. That carries the stigma of being too damn stupid, stubborn, poor, or whatever, to live anywhere more congenial. OTOH, anybody whose ancestors go back here from before the 1800s is one tough SOB, at least as far as immune systems go. You can't take a step around here without walking over a mass grave from one epidemic or another. I mean, Aedes aegyptis is the state bird of Lousy Anna, closely rivaled by Anopheles quadrimaculatus

Anyway, new tracking shows it projecting slightly more west, even more so if that high pressure over Oklahoma keeps up.

Not good news. I'd rather it hit New Orleans than Lafayette. If it hits NO, I'm on the gentler west side. If it hits Lafayette, I'm on the stronger east side.

 

[Deke]

Not good news. I'd rather it hit New Orleans than Lafayette. If it hits NO, I'm on the gentler west side. If it hits Lafayette, I'm on the stronger east side.

Yeah but I want to to go west so it doesn't hit New Orleans where I'm at.

You're turn to take the hit. LOL.

 

[Bullethead]

Yeah but I want to to go west so it doesn't hit New Orleans where I'm at.

You're turn to take the hit. LOL.

Katrina missed NO, as you well know. Meanwhile, I've been hit by Andrew, Allison, Lilly, and Rita, plus a couple others I forget the names of. So it's still your turn :rofl:

All kidding aside, however, WTF are you still doing in New Orleans? Hello, there's a big hurricane coming. I've got a house full of New Orleans refugees as I type this, and they had trouble getting out due to traffic. I shudder to think what it will be like tomorrow.

 

[Deke]

All kidding aside, however, WTF are you still doing in New Orleans? Hello, there's a big hurricane coming. I've got a house full of New Orleans refugees as I type this, and they had trouble getting out due to traffic. I shudder to think what it will be like tomorrow.

Ummm because it's NOT as big as the media is making it out to be? The ONLY reason they're being so prepared is because they all want their arses covered so this go round no one can have the finger pointed at them.

That and I promise you those levees aren't gonna hold, and they know it, so they're getting them out now. But I don't live near the levees, and my house survived Katrina. I'm not scared of this storm one bit. I'm aggrivated at the overreacting of our officials who are turning a routine hurricane (yeah, routine. Doesn't mean it isn't bad, but it's not what they're making it out to be) into this killer massive storm that is being made up to be the worst we've ever seen.

If it keeps going on the track it is now, the NO metropolitan area will incounter tropical storm like weather while Terrebone-Houston will get the main part of the storm.

Regardless of where it hits. Call me stubborn, I've never left before, and I don't plan to leave now.

 

[Bullethead]

Ummm because it's NOT as big as the media is making it out to be?

Might want to check on Gustav again. As predicted, the thing blew up overnight and is now a Cat 3, moving on the predicted course at the predicted speed. Current thinking is that it'll get up to Cat 5 in the mid-Gulf but fall back to Cat 3 when it hits the beach somewhere between Intercoastal City and Houma heading NW toward Fort Polk. NO's going to be on the east side of the thing this time.

The ONLY reason they're being so prepared is because they all want their arses covered so this go round no one can have the finger pointed at them.

No, it's because we got rid of old Kathy Blanc-stare because she refused to do anything to prepare for Katrina. Jindal's now doing exactly what she should have done then, and exactly what other Gulf Coast governors have been doing routinely for years. It's just a new thing for Lousy Anna to have a governor who's actually interested protecting his people and the state economy. Always before, our governors have instead viewed hurricanes as a windfall of massive federal aid money to stuff into their own pockets, so the more carnage the better.

That and I promise you those levees aren't gonna hold, and they know it, so they're getting them out now. But I don't live near the levees, and my house survived Katrina. I'm not scared of this storm one bit.

Well, may whatever Gods there be see you and yours safely through. Let us know in a few months how it went, once you get your power back and the water drains away :blink:.